Activision updates Call Of Duty franchise for Xbox One

No Modern Warfare 4 here—meet the graphically superior Call of Duty: Ghosts.

Microsoft said it plans on debuting eight new franchises during the first year the Xbox One is on the market. Toward the end of today's console presentation, Activison Publishing CEO Eric Hirhberg came out to reveal one such game—Call of Duty: Ghosts. "Everyone was expecting us to play it safe and bring out Modern Warfare 4," Hirhberg said. "Instead, Ghosts is an entirely new world, new narrative, new cast of characters."

Hirhberg went on to disclose some details of the game. Ghosts was built on an entirely new engine to provide cutting-edge visuals. Stephen Gaghan, director of Syriana, wrote the story. Players take the role of underdogs fighting against superior forces as some mass event cripples the US military. Ghosts focuses on guerrilla fighting and street warfare.

"This will be the most beautiful Call of Duty game we've ever made," Hirhberg said. The title will feature 60 fps and low latency controls in the hopes of creating a "great-feeling game."

The Activision team went on to show a side-by-side video comparing Ghosts to past COD titles. Ars Gaming Editor Kyle Orland's initial take: "Arms in MW3 were beautiful, but new arms convey fine hairs, bruising, cuts, and even dirt beneath fingernails."

The presentation on Ghosts ended with the first-look trailer, which we will embed when available, and a teaser to more information. After all, there's just 19 days, 22 hours, and 29 minutes until E3.

So, they're getting close to making console games have the visual quality of PC games now. Well, I guess I can at least be happy about better looking crappy ports that refer to the Xbox controls when using a keyboard.

You'd think that some of you would get tired of pushing your CoD negativity, but nope, you've still got to make the world know the same shit over and over again.

Allow me to clear something up; fuck you, I play CoD but I am not ignorant. I play it because I enjoy it, I'm not filed under some label just because of that, and I'm getting increasingly tired of today's gaming generation always looking to label some fanbase of a game as ignorant or stupid or brainwashed.

Personally, I look forward to seeing what it's like, because I've thoroughly enjoyed every single campaign since the first CoD and I have no doubt the trend will continue.

We used to be a community. Now so many of you are just judgmental dicks.

So, they're getting close to making console games have the visual quality of PC games now. Well, I guess I can at least be happy about better looking crappy ports that refer to the Xbox controls when using a keyboard.

They're always close to PCs when they first come out. It's the following years that make them look geriatric.

let's make a game about war and violence in super-ultra detail, tell people it's the most realistic and beautiful yet, but still sanitize war by not having entrails, veins dangling from legs blown off, etc.

It's good to hear that they'll be hitting 80 FPS. I can't remember who it was, but the head of some studio said that the new consoles would continue to be 30 FPS so that they could focuse on other things.

It's good to hear that they'll be hitting 80 FPS. I can't remember who it was, but the head of some studio said that the new consoles would continue to be 30 FPS so that they could focuse on other things.

CoD has always been 60 FPS. And it's true, these new consoles will be running at 30 FPS again in no time.

Those are cutting–edge visuals? Call of Duty: Ghosts looks just like Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3, Call of Duty: Black Ops and Call of Duty: Black Ops 2. Hell, it will be played the same way, it will have the same narrative, it will have the same everything.

You'd think that some of you would get tired of pushing your CoD negativity, but nope, you've still got to make the world know the same shit over and over again.

Allow me to clear something up; fuck you, I play CoD but I am not ignorant. I play it because I enjoy it, I'm not filed under some label just because of that, and I'm getting increasingly tired of today's gaming generation always looking to label some fanbase of a game as ignorant or stupid or brainwashed.

Personally, I look forward to seeing what it's like, because I've thoroughly enjoyed every single campaign since the first CoD and I have no doubt the trend will continue.

We used to be a community. Now so many of you are just judgmental dicks.

It's good to hear that they'll be hitting 80 FPS. I can't remember who it was, but the head of some studio said that the new consoles would continue to be 30 FPS so that they could focuse on other things.

CoD has always been 60 FPS. And it's true, these new consoles will be running at 30 FPS again in no time.

It's good to hear that they'll be hitting 80 FPS. I can't remember who it was, but the head of some studio said that the new consoles would continue to be 30 FPS so that they could focuse on other things.

CoD has always been 60 FPS. And it's true, these new consoles will be running at 30 FPS again in no time.